282 Mr. It. Swinhoe on Formosan Ornithology . 
have seen and procured it from Sawo, on the eastern coast; 
Kelung, north; Tamsuy, N.W.; Taiwanfoo and Apes* Hill, S.W. 
It feeds on almost every creeping thing of the great insect- 
family, and occasionally on birds of the Prinia group. I have 
frequently taken entire birds’-eggs out of its stomach. It searches 
throughout the bushes more diligently than any schoolboy for 
the nests of small birds, and ruthlessly sucks the eggs and 
devours the young. In this character, as well as in some others, 
it approaches the Jays; but I think its affinities are more de¬ 
cidedly Turdine. 
42. Garrulax ruficeps, Gould, P. Z. S. 1862, p. 281. 
This species frequents the central wooded range of mountains, 
and very rarely descends to the lower hills that flank the Chi¬ 
nese territory. I never met with it alive, and my hunters only 
succeeded in procuring one pair. It differs entirely from any of 
the Eastern-Asiatic forms of Garrulax , but, strange enough, has 
characters largely in common with a species from Bootan and 
Mussoorie (India), the G. alhogularis , Gould. 
Length lOlin.; wing 5; tail 5. Bill black. Loral space 
round eye and chin black. Crown of head bright rufous; cheek 
light-rufous olive; upper parts brownish olive. Wings hair- 
brown, broadly margined with olive, the tertiaries being almost 
entirely of that colour. The 6th quill-feather the longest in the 
wing; the 5th and 7th being equal, and slightly shorter than 
the 6th. Tail rich olive-brown, greyer on the two central fea¬ 
thers, which are unspotted; the next one has a whitish mark at 
the tip; the 3rd a broad white mark, which increases in size, 
until, on the lateral feathers, it is 1^ in. deep. Tail graduated, 
the outer feather being 1-^ in. shorter than the central ones. 
Throat and lower neck pure white; the centre of the belly not 
quite such pure white. Sides of the breast of the same colour 
as the back. Planks, axillaries, and tibise brownish ochre or 
buff; vent pale buff. Under part of shafts of quills and tail- 
feathers whitish, and under edges of inner quills rufescent. In 
the pair I have, there is scarce any difference as to size or colour. 
Tarsi 1*85 in. long. 
In G. alhogularis the entire belly and flanks are of a decided 
